Improvement in potato and fruit peelers



tarea snow @wat @time MAHIiON B. ATKINSON, OF GEORGETOWN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AS-

` SIG-NOR TO'HIMSEIJF AND JAMES H.. WELCH, OF SAME PLACE.

lLetters Patent No. 107,321, dated September 13, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN POTATO AND FRUIT PEELEIRS.

The Schedule referreddto in these Letters Patent and making part of the same .To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, MAHLON B. ATKINSON, of Georgetown, in theeountyof Washington and District oi' Columbia, haveinvented anewandvaluable Improvement in Potato and Fruit Ieclers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactI dcscription ofthe construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this speciicatioinand to the letters and iignres of reference marked thereon. l

Figure l of the drawing is a central' vertical section ot my invention.

My invention relates to means for washing and peeling vegetables and fruit, and consists in the novel construction and arrangement of a'rotatng perforated vessel, adjusted in a diagonal position within a .water-V holding reeeptacle, as hereinafter particularly described.

A of the drawing represents a large dish or receptacle, usually constructed with an enlargedropen top, and with a projection, marked B, which projection serves as a dash-boardor guard to prevent the water from being thrown over 'cherim ot' the dish.

C represents a. brace, arranged diagonally from one side to the bottom of the water-receptacle, to form a. suitable bearing for the bottom ot the rotating shaft described hereafter.

I) represents the operati-ng rotating shaft of my device, the upper end ot' which is bent to form the crank E, while its lower .end is adapted toptit and rotate in a suitable aperture in the brace C, as shown.

F represents a.- brace, aitixed to the side of the water-receptacle, and extends upward, as shown, to form a rest and bearing for the shaft D.

G represents a perforated vessel firmly attached to the shaft D, and which consequently rotates therewith. This vessel Gis perforated from the outside, and usually by mea-ns oFasharp-poin'ted triangular or quadrangnlar-shaped instrument, Athef'object being to form a seriesof isharp points or knives resembling a grater, t-oscrapethe skin-from the fruit or Vvegetables that may-be placed in the vessel. 'y v The letters y representa series of' openings through the bottom of' the holder G, and are intended to provide for a free passage of water both into and out ot' the holder G. The skins-ot' the fruit or vegetables also pass out of the' rotating holder through these large apertures.

I find 'it desirable to round the corners of this vessel G, as the drawing represents.

I am aware that vessels have been invented for the purpose ,of peelingand washing vegetablesy and fruit by means ofwater and grater-teeth; but,vso far as I have knowledge, all such devices have been arranged in uprightor horizontal positions, thereby losing much ofthe eici'eney 'secured by my apparatus.

I do not claim broadly the invent-ion of rotating per-l forated vessels moving in water; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl The rotating perforated scraperand holder G, having its axis oblique to the perpendicular, substantially as specified. y

In testimony that I claim 'the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two wit-y` nesses.

M. Il. ATKINSON.

Witnesses z E. W. ANDERSON, EDM. F. BROWN. 

